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George Orwell is said to have noted that the real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good
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"According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute... global military spending reached $1.204 trillion in 2006, an all-time high, and 37 percent greater than it was ten years earlier. That amounts to $182 for every single person on the planet. "Meanwhile, butter got about $104 billion in 2006; that’s the total amount of international development assistance spent by all countries. That amounts to the equivalent of $15 for every person on the planet."
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